--- title: DeepMind dismantles its Nobel-winning AlphaFold team description: Google DeepMind has disbanded its Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold team, reassigning most original authors to Gemini-related projects while key figures —... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/deepmind-dismantles-its-nobel-winning-alphafold-team-h3dj4luzd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: DeepMind dismantles its Nobel-winning AlphaFold team | daily.dev og:description: Google DeepMind has disbanded its Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold team, reassigning most original authors to Gemini-related projects while key figures —... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/deepmind-dismantles-its-nobel-winning-alphafold-team-h3dj4luzd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/H3DJ4LuzD.png og:image:alt: DeepMind dismantles its Nobel-winning AlphaFold team og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # DeepMind dismantles its Nobel-winning AlphaFold team **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Google DeepMind has disbanded its Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold team, reassigning most original authors to Gemini-related projects while key figures — including Nobel laureate John Jumper and researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel — have departed for Anthropic. The restructuring marks a strategic pivot away from DeepMind's signature 'one team, one grand challenge' model toward building Gemini-powered AI systems designed to assist scientists broadly. AlphaFold cracked the 50-year protein-folding problem and now underpins global drug discovery research, but DeepMind is folding that legacy into a wider language-model race. Critics note the irony: the lab most associated with deep science is now chasing the same LLM strategy as its competitors, while losing the talent that defined it to rivals like Anthropic, which just launched Claude Science for biology and drug-discovery work. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Why is DeepMind breaking up its AlphaFold team? DeepMind is dismantling the team behind AlphaFold, the protein-folding system that won a Nobel Prize, and reassigning most of the paper's original authors to other work. Research VP Pushmeet Kohli said the lab's nine-year strategy of dedicating teams to single grand challenges has evolved toward Gemini-powered systems meant to assist and automate scientific research more broadly. _Track how major AI labs like daily.dev users are reshaping research strategy around Gemini-style systems._ ### Which AlphaFold researchers left DeepMind for Anthropic? John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize with Demis Hassabis, left DeepMind for Anthropic in June, followed by fellow core AlphaFold researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel. A DeepMind employee described the three as instrumental, core members whose departure caused internal surprise. They joined Anthropic shortly after it launched Claude Science, a workbench for biology and drug-discovery work. _Follow talent moves like these on daily.dev to gauge where AI research momentum is heading next._ ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@marinkomijatovic** · 1 upvotes > DeepMind’s shift shows how the LLM race is reshaping even its greatest scientific teams—while rivals gain the talent that built its legacy. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Google shuts down Nobel Prize winning AlphaFold](https://daily.dev/posts/google-shuts-down-nobel-prize-winning-alphafold-h2gmeztef) · Hacker News · 5 upvotes · 2 comments - [Google I/O showed how the path for AI-driven science is shifting](https://daily.dev/posts/google-i-o-showed-how-the-path-for-ai-driven-science-is-shifting-p08sxf2im) · MIT Technology Review · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two more Gemini researchers are leaving Google for Anthropic](https://daily.dev/posts/two-more-gemini-researchers-are-leaving-google-for-anthropic-b9zgheuzx) · The Next Web · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - 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